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Lenin on Nicholas II

Dear friends!

Today I decided to look at what Lenin wrote about Nicholas II, primarily after the February Revolution, when Nicholas II was already in exile, and after he had already been executed. Here's what I came up with.

Before the Execution

Vol. 54, p. 370. Report to the International Socialist Bureau, "Elections to the Fourth Duma." Krakow, November 11, 1912.

"The Third Duma was dominated by the Octobrist Party—a party of reactionary nobles and big capitalists subservient to tsarism. But even these 'slaves' could not satisfy Nicholas II's clique—that black gang that organized pogroms and assassination attempts on opposition deputies.

The government, which rigged the elections to get the Octobrists into the Third Duma, is now rigging the elections to send more “loyal” parties – the “nationalists” and the “extreme right” – into the Fourth Duma.

The pressure was overwhelming. Priests were ordered to participate en masse in the elections and elect right-wingers; arrests of opposition candidates, fines on the press, the closure of newspapers, ...

The Great Taking has started

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